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© 1985 Oxford University Press

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The Reliability of Reported Suicide Mortality Statistics: An Experience from Belgium

GUIDO F G MOENS

School of Public Health, University of Leuven Vital Decosterstaat 102, B-3000 LEUVEN Belgium

Moens G F G (School of Public Health, University of Leuven, Vital Decosterstraat 102, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium). The reliability of reported suicide mortality statistics: an experience from Belgium. International Journal of Epidemiology 1985, 14: 272–275.

To assess the reliability of official Belgian suicide statistics in epidemiological comparisons on national and on district level, various mortality indicators for suicide, undetermined deaths, accidental poisoning deaths and ‘estimated’ suicide in 1968–1972 and 1978–1981 were compared. Results did not reveal important bias on national comparisons by undereporting. But the biased distribution of undetermined deaths among the 43 geographical entities (districts) suggests that the assumption about constancy of underreporting is not always met and has to be checked if possible. Nevertheless, the numerical weight of the underreporting categories was not found heavy enough to bias the geographical suicide pattern in Belgium.

Received 1 July 1984


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